Everyone engages in continuous self talk.* At any given moment many of them make careers out of self talk by writing down what they think. These are the novelists, screenwriters, biographers, columnists, poets, reporters, advertisers — even attorneys — who compose messages, tell stories and make arguments intended to inform, entertain or persuade an audience of one, or a multitude of thousands. Like all other professionals, writers chase money and fame, in that order, until each symbiotically feeds the other. As an inveterate blog junkie, you chase neither and neither comes calling. In fact, you routinely question what absurd level of ego drives you to transfer self talk to commentary that you dump on both familiar and often unsuspecting inboxes. Admittedly, you do covet attention to your opinions. And would be gratified to know that you might actually sway public opinion. But Fodder’s acceptance or approval is only a byproduct of a more important, personal mission — which is simply to leave your family a tangible piece of yourself — the gist of the principles that makes you tick. Frankly, in the mid-90s, there wasn’t even a hint of anything as esoteric as a mission. Fodder was a lark, a one page (two-sided) newsletter composed and typed on a manual Smith Corona typewriter, printed on brown paper and distributed to clients and media denizens via snail mail. Content centered on marketing principles, with bits of humor and a pinch of sarcasm and cynicism — “Seinfeldian” observations without Jerry’s virtuosity. But on 9-11, 2001, everything changed. War invaded America with physical destruction and death; and eight years later war infiltrated America’s Oval Office with the election of Barack Obama. America was under siege. Fodder’s frivolity came to an end. The enemy without became the enemy within. The enemy had names. Obamacare. Foreign Policy Appeasement. Fiscal Depravity. Affirmative Action. Illegal Immigration. Child Trafficking. Fentanyl Deaths. Black Lives Matter. Antifa Insurrection. Government Sponsored Abortion. Deliberate Inflation. Covid Treachery. DEI-Woke-ism. Critical Race Theory. Defunding Police. Unlawful Impeachments. Assassination Attempts. FBI/CIA Lawlessness. Media Deceit. Except for fiscal corruption, every plot above belongs solely to the Democrat Party. Therefore, unequivocally, you do blame the Democrat Party for its gang-like criminality. But you can’t pin America’s fiscal ruin on one party. That blame is shared by generations of lawmakers, GOP and Democrat alike, who stood by and in fact enabled the Supreme Court to eviscerate The Constitution. The damage was done when the Court decided to strengthen the runaway jurisdiction of the Federal Government, confirming the worst fears of the Founders and delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention. To their everlasting credit, the Founders, at the last minute, gave The People Article V, giving them ABSOLUTE POWER over any type of Federal dictatorial overreach. And so here Fodder sits, asking a few of those people to speak out in North Carolina by writing a letter or by making a simple phone call in support of the Convention of States. Should they choose to accept responsibility, America is in the hands and hearts of The People.
Since 2015, when you realized the Federal Government was hopelessly broken, you dedicated Fodder to Article V. A year earlier, Georgia became the first state to adopt COS. Now, with the second election of Donald Trump, you see the proper beginning of a political course correction. But please face reality. The Federal Government will never, ever, limit its jurisdiction and freely yield one iota of power. And never forget this: Trump policy can be erased with the stroke of a pen. Politicians — even the best of them — will never relinquish authority, despite their criticism of the “system.”
COS remains the one and ONLY REMEDY that can keep America, American. You want your family to know it and remember it. You hope Fodder will survive estate sales and digital scrubbing to find a single set of family eyes, say in 2125, just as you found letters left behind by Jefferson, Washington, Adams, Hamilton and thousands of others whose scholarship continues to tell the true story of America’s creation. Likewise, all Americans should consider leaving behind their own self talk — to continue speaking to descendants long after they are gone.
*Obviously, “everyone” excludes those who are temporarily or permanently in coma, or unfit.
Note: According to COS founders, Donald Trump recently posted his endorsement of the Convention of States.
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